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Those who stay call those who leave yordim (from the Hebrew verb meaning to descend) and look down on them as deserters. When Gary Bertini of the Israel Chamber Orchestra became the ninth Israeli conductor to leave the country in the past ten years, an angry music lover wrote to the Jerusalem Post...
Dancer Douglas Dunn writes a poem similar to R.D. Laing's "Knots" by listing what seem to be all the linguistic combinations possible with "dancing," "talking," and the verb "to be." It ends...
...comment about the Senator's greater interest in the affairs of cows and bulks than in human affairs should have been attributed to James Reston, not to me. Your reporter asked me to summarize Reston's column on this matter for her, and I did not so. The verb, incidentally, was "mate." not "make." --Zick Rubin Lecturer on Social Psychology
Traditional phrase structure grammar analyzed sentences independent of their relation to other sentences: for example, a passive sentence like "Max was crushed by the safe" would be parsed into subject-verb-prepositional phrase. Chomsky's contribution was to recognize that the same, easily described relationship between that sentence and its active counterpart, "The safe crushed Max," exists between countless other pairs of sentences. He conceived of "transformations" as simple devices to describe the relations between simple sentences like "The safe crushed Max" and complex ones like "Max was crushed by the safe," "What the safe did was crush...
...Nessen and the President might be well advised to open their Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and look up the definition of NIM. They would, with red faces, discover that NIM is a verb, defined: "to take from, steal, filch...